Stephen Bly (1944-2011) was an author and novelist of more than 100 books and hundreds of articles, poems, and short stories. His book, The Long Trail Home Broadman & Holman, won the 2002 Christy Award in the category western novel:. Three other books, Picture Rock Crossway Books, The Outlaw's Twin Sister (Crossway Books), and Last of the Texas Camp (Broadman & Holman), were Christy Award finalists. Bly's books, primarily western novel genre in the American West, historical and contemporary, are written from a Christian worldview. His Paperback Writer was noted in a Publisher's Weekly review for its "amusing parody of the proverbial dime-store paperback novel. . . "